vriskanon:

hentaikid:

avelokadrawsguts:

vriskanon:

wizardshark:

vriskanon:

🅱️LIZZARD 🅱️LEASE

HOLY FUCK BLIZZARD HOW COULD YOU NOT INCLUDE THIS

The thing that gets me about this

The thing that really GETS ME GOING IS

Each sentence is so much wilder than the last

“A female russian hero” Yes good

“She would be riding a bear and duel-wielding AK47s” FUCK YES that’s some wild fucking shit

“Her ultimate would be for the bear to also pull out dual AK47s”

Someone probably already drew this better, but the description was so much fun I had to give it a try.

Isn’t this supposed to be a WWII thing? The ak wasn’t invented yet. Lacks realism.

You’re absolutely right hentai kid. A woman riding a bear dual-weilding AK47s would be unrealistic because overwatch is set during World War II and AK47s had yet to be invented

It is funny how historical war vidya has been playing up the StG-44 or for WWI stuff even the Fedorov Automat because our age likes to reverse-project the assault rifle onto recent history

Red Dead Redemption Online with its new add-on adding this Helena Bonham Carter fuckable-borderline-of-eccentric-and-crazy 1990s figure

Rockstar really invested in American historical continuity. I appreciate that.

Rocket League probably counts as the last good thing before it all fell apart

Thinking about how for the modern Tomb Raiders they decided the important thing about Lara’s tits hadn’t been “big” so much as “firm”

retrocgads:

USA 1991

Oh shit people don’t realize what a thing Battle Chess was, with the animated captures where the pieces killed each other

That was HUGE, it was the standard display in computer stores for years, there were variants like the Star Wars one where black queen/king was Vader/Palpatine, etc.

Duels in Ghost of Tsushima weirdly fetishize the draw, given that (unlike Standoffs) they aren’t 1-strike iajutsu

Thinking about how the overlookable 2014 open-world Infamous: Second Son was, thematically, a tale about how Seattle street radicalism arises from the contrast between the neoliberal city and local neglected populations, tonally pitched at suburban twelve-year-olds

Like by the end your team of rebels includes a stencil tagger from the economically depressed coastal native fisheries, a homeless euphemized sexual minority teen runaway ex-junkie, and a vidya hikki

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and Ghost of Tsushima are good endpoints of the AAA creator maturation-driven “what does the relation of fathers and children mean?” thematic trends of the last decade

It’s funny behind the “walking simulators about depression” stuff, AAA games became pretty thematically interesting this decade. You know what was a good outlet thru the GamerGate era? GameStop’s GameInformer, which had the incentive to make you feel your vidya money is well-spent and irrevocable access of being part of GameStop.

As far as I’m concerned there are two distinct lineages of Assassin’s Creed games, distinguished by how they handle climbing and stealth but especially combat, one focuses on perfect combat timing and in the other you’ll take hits but have health potions, and Ghost of Tsushima is clearly a really good blend of both, such that “normal” mode is really well balanced.

thinking about like Mafia… 3 that was one month’s PlayStation freebie, and it was in like mid-60s New Orleans and the tutorial mission to drop you in media this was like, stealing about-to-be-decommissioned worn out currency

and walking into the heist in the scene-setting your partner was like “sorry I’m gonna call you a nigger to blend in here” and you were like “yeah, well” and you passed and they celebrated with your adoptive uncle then killed him not even cause black/white stuff but crime drama wrong family stuff

and that was really promising but like the driving controls and the shooting controls and the level design were like, Saints Row one

Ghost of Tsushima – it’s an Ubisoft. Specifically, it’s a Japan-flavored Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, with maybe a bit of Far Cry.

It’s not by Japanese people though, which is interesting. It’s reportedly well-received there and the guy behind Yakuza (basically, “Being Japanese: the AAA Series”) likes it.

But beats feel a little off. The best synecdoche for it was I had to switch off the Japanese audio track. It was grammatically and phonetically correct but I couldn’t tell if the director just didn’t know where to put emphasis or if I was being bugged by the translated-from-English lines when I know the sentiment would be expressed differently.

me: so what’s up with the way you subjected your hands to abuse to the point they were clutching and then retrained them to full function against resistance?

also me:

koobaxion-deactivated20220403:

Played like Farming Simulator 2019 free off PlayStation, was struck by how it’s somehow simultaneously tedious and bleak while being wildly overoptimistic about the reality of rural small farming

Fun as a playset of fully-functioning toy miniatures, I suppose.

Based on the fact that the Yakuza series is basically about “being Japanese”, and having previously been exposed to Japan, I guessed from the start the “secret of Onomichi” was going to involve the fucking battleship Yamato rising from under the sea

SURE ENOUGH

neenarchive:

Been trying that CoD:WWII multiplayer

It is modern CoD fast-twitch game of angles, which gets absolutely ridiculous set in 1944

Like, it tries to retcon red dot sights into World War II

kontextmaschine:

Call of Duty: WWII was free on PS4 this month (basically to pump sales of the expansions), thought I might as well play the campaign

Man, I forgot how much I hate CoD writing. Like the Battlefield games tell war stories with missions set in significant operations or theaters, but CoD is like caricature stuff where your character is personally central to every memorable event.

Like there’s a mission that’s reminding me of the WWI-set Battlefield One, and maybe it’s the different tone in re: WWI vs WWII, but there victory is understood as “you survived, and through some objective played a part as the war machine advances another push” and here it’s like “fresh off personally leading the Resistance to liberate Paris, you turn the tables in a Kraut city by personally winning the air war from the ground, leading a decisive tank battle, and clearing the stronghold with your men”

(Also not fond of Naughty Dog writing, all aspiring to middlebrow blockbusters)

Jesus, that mission concludes with you hiding and escaping with… a bunch of Jews? Hiding in the basement of the Nazi strong point? I KNOW.

There’s some value to it. The mission made the point that at this point, tank doctrine involved using them to support infantry, not vice versa. Later, a tent bivouac in the forest subtly indicated the continuity of WWII with Korea and Vietnam.

Codblops, which was basically CoD: The 60s, was at least interesting cause we don’t have an established canon of important themes. The overall sweep was broadly there – “Faced with situations like Castro in Cuba, JFK prioritized a secret CIA-led approach to the Cold War. As the space race heated up, advanced technology joined the fight. In Vietnam, special forces began to take over from the average G.I.”

But still the choices of individual missions were interesting. I’d never heard of the Vorkuta uprising. Vietnam as Khe Sanh/SOG/Laos/riverboat patrol isn’t the obvious option of Search & Destroy/helicopter/tunnels/Tet.

Has anyone ever set a mil-FPS in the Korean War?

Call of Duty: WWII was free on PS4 this month (basically to pump sales of the expansions), thought I might as well play the campaign

Man, I forgot how much I hate CoD writing. Like the Battlefield games tell war stories with missions set in significant operations or theaters, but CoD is like caricature stuff where your character is personally central to every memorable event.

Like there’s a mission that’s reminding me of the WWI-set Battlefield One, and maybe it’s the different tone in re: WWI vs WWII, but there victory is understood as “you survived, and through some objective played a part as the war machine advances another push” and here it’s like “fresh off personally leading the Resistance to liberate Paris, you turn the tables in a Kraut city by personally winning the air war from the ground, leading a decisive tank battle, and clearing the stronghold with your men”

(Also not fond of Naughty Dog writing, all aspiring to middlebrow blockbusters)

also it’s funny how many plot twists in the Yakuza series come down to no one having noticed that another character wasn’t actually Japanese, just Asian

I guess it does underline how much of “looking Japanese” isn’t actually genetic but fashion, hairstyle, behavior – all the subtle things that allow you to go to Seattle and distinguish between Japanese and Japanese-Americans on the street

“Japan’s relationship with neighboring countries” has been a recurring theme (bringing in exotic organized crime rivals), often doubling with fellow recurring theme “neglected out-groups of Japan”.

The introduction of Little Asia, the African touts in Kabukicho standin “Kamurocho” by 6, Zero showing foreigners have always been there (and calling back to the legacy of Japan’s colonial involvement on the mainland)

This one there’s a bit about the unimportance of blood as a climactic moment, which makes it sort of a climactic theme to the series. But for all that, even the friendly crypto-Japanese reveals have this weird undercurrent of They’re Always Infiltrating, More and More